Magistrates also dropped a sexual assault case brought by French author Tristane Banon on the grounds that the alleged 2003 incident had taken place too long ago.
"Keep in mind that he comes out of the tradition of (French author) Jules Verne, whose characters are always traveling around the world and finding lost civilizations and incredible ruins, " he continued.
For those unfamiliar with the term, "auteur" - French for author - refers to a filmmaker whose work reflects his or her creative vision and personal sensibilities.
The first, launched in 2008, was named after celebrated French science fiction author, Jules Verne.
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But while Lloyd Webber's hi-tech take seemed to prove the optimum format for the story, it is just one of numerous retellings, all deriving from a 1910 novel by French journalist and author Gaston Leroux.
The author, Paul French, vividly reconstructs her life, emphasising both the elegant and decadent.
Claude Allegre, a geochemist and former French Education Minister, was the lead author, although that was just because the 16 were listed alphabetically.
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Tim Moore is the author of Do Not Pass Go and French Revolutions, among others.
"I would rather have been the author of that piece than beat the French tomorrow, " he is reported to have said.
"It's no coincidence that the phrase 'je ne sais quoi' is used to describe something so beautiful and elegant that it is seemingly indescribable, " said Erin Swift, a Manhattan-based set designer, prop stylist and author of the new book, "French Accents: At Home With Parisian Objects and Details" (Clarkson Potter).
By Nicolas Colin, author of a controversial new report commissioned by the French Government about the tax system and the digital economy.
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In a journey that begins with the author as a child attending the burial of a courageous French commander, killed in battle in Indo-China, three themes recur.
Happy Birthday was sung (in French, English, the local Wolof, and a fourth language this author has yet to determine), homemade cake was unveiled and dance moves were displayed.
Mr Mitterrand may regard Mr Mabanckou as an exotic flower in France's literary garland, but the author is convinced that metropolitan France is no longer the centre of French literature.
In the realm of the literary arts, Mr. Magill has a field day, zeroing in on Rousseau as the source of our modern literary obsession with sincerity, which the author finds manifest in German and English Romanticism, American Transcendentalism, French Symbolism and other currents that come to look like a tidal wave in favor of finding and flaunting the unvarnished self.
"A lot of French construction companies got very rich out of building the Wall, " said Jerome Prieur, author of a 2010 book, Le Mur Atlantique.
Happily, neither author is trapped in the linguistic chauvinism that the English all too often attribute to the French.
Jeannette Seaver, a publisher and author of four cookbooks, joined the group a decade ago because of her love for her native French food.
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